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and they will have a painful punishment, for having lied.

Those are the ones who bought error at the price of guidance; their trade did not, then, prove lucrative, and they did not let themselves be guided.

And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our obedient one, bring, then, a surah like it,

and call your witnesses, besides God, if you are veracious.

How can you disown God, when you were dead and He gave you life; then He will cause you to die,

And He taught Adam all the attributes, then He presented them to the Agents, and said: "Inform Me of the attributes of these, if you are veracious."

And when he had informed them of their attributes, He said: "Did I not tell you that I know what escapes the senses in the heavens and on the earth, and that I know what you make appear and what you were withholding?"

except Iblis: he refused, grew proud, and was among those who disown.

but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers."

But the Diverter made them slip out of it, and drove them out of the state they were in;

And believe in what I have sent down, confirming what is with you, and do not be the first to disown it;

they did not wrong Us, but it was themselves that they wronged.

But those who did wrong substituted a saying other than what had been said to them; We then sent down upon those who had done wrong a defilement from the sky, for having overstepped.

That is because they used to disown the signs of God, and kill the informants without right.

It is for having disobeyed and crossed the limits.

and without God's favor upon you and His benevolence, you would have been among the losers.

You have indeed known those among you who crossed the limits concerning the Rest; We then said to them: "Be apes, rebuffed."

He said: "I take refuge in God against being among the ignorant."

but God was going to bring out what you were withholding.

Would you covet, then, that they give you credit, when a fraction among them used to hear the word of God, then garble it, after having grasped it with reason, while knowing?

And when a scripture came to them from God, confirming what is with them — though before they used to ask for the opening against those who disowned —,

Say: "Why, then, did you kill the informants of God, before, if you were believers?"

Say: "How evil is what your faith orders you, if you are believers!"

Say: "If the last abode, with God, belongs exclusively to you, to the exclusion of mankind, wish, then, for death, if you are veracious."

Say: "Whoever is an enemy of Jibril should know that it is he who brought it down upon your core, with God's permission, confirming what precedes it, and as a guidance and good tidings for the believers."

Whoever is an enemy of God, His Agents, His messengers, Jibril, and Mikal should know that God is indeed the enemy of those who disown.

And how evil is what they sold their own Selves for, had they known!

And had they believed and guarded themselves, a requital from God would indeed have been better, had they known.

And they said: "None will enter the Garden, except one who belongs to the Reoriented or the Helpers."

Say: "Bring your demonstration, if you are veracious."

God will judge between them, on the Day of Appearance, concerning what they used to differ over.

Those should not enter them except fearful.

When He decrees a matter, He only says to it: "Be",

and it is.

Or were you witnesses, when death presented itself to Yaacoub, when he said to his sons: "What will you obey after me?"

and you will not be questioned about what they used to do.

And they said: "Be Reoriented or Helpers, you will let yourselves be guided."

and he was not among those who associate.

Or do you say: "Ibrahim, Isma'il, Ishaq, Yaacoub, and the bloodlines were Reoriented or Helpers"?

and you will not be questioned about what they used to do.

The fools, among mankind, will say: "What has turned them away from their rallying point, the one they used to be upon?"

so that you may be witnesses against mankind, and the messenger a witness against you.

And We had placed the rallying point, the one you were upon, only to distinguish who follows the messenger from who turns back on his heels.

That was indeed heavy, except for those God has guided.

And it is not for God to let your faith dissipate.

and wherever you are, set your course for it.

so never be among those who contend.

Wherever you are, God will bring you all back.

and wherever you are, set your course for it, so that men may have no argument against you — except those among them who do wrong; do not dread them, then, but dread Me —

as We have sent, among you, a messenger from among yourselves, who recites Our signs to you, purifies you, teaches you the Scripture and the wisdom, and teaches you what you did not know. Remember Me, then, I will remember you; be grateful to Me, and do not disown Me.

What! Even if their ancestors reasoned nothing and did not let themselves be guided?

O you who have believed! Eat of the wholesome things We have provided you, and be grateful toward God, if it is Him that you obey.

And whoever among you is sick, or on a journey, then a number of other days;

and that you abstain is better for you, if you knew.

and whoever is sick, or on a journey, then a number of other days.

God knew that you were betraying yourselves; He turned toward you with clemency, then, and overlooked it for you.

And fight them until there is no more trial, and the Law is for God;

and whoever among you is sick, or suffers a nuisance of the head, then a compensation by abstention, charity, or a beneficent practice.

That, for one whose family is not present at the inviolable place of prostration.

and remember Him, as He has guided you, though you were before among the astray.

Mankind formed a single community; God then raised up the informants, bearers of good tidings and warners, and sent down with them the Scripture, in truth, so that it might judge between men what they differed over.

and it is not permitted for them to withhold what God has created in their wombs, if they believe in God and the Last Day.

That is what whoever among you believes in God and the Last Day is exhorted to.

and once secure, remember God as He has taught you what you did not know.

They said: "How would he have the dominion over us, when we have more right to it than he, and he has not been given ampleness of goods?"

There is surely in that a sign for you, if you are believers.

Would one of you like to have a garden of palm trees and vines, beneath which rivers flow, wherein he would have all kinds of fruits, then old age strikes him, while he has weak descendants, and a whirlwind of fire strikes the garden, and it burns?

O you who have believed! Guard yourselves toward God, and forsake what remains of usury, if you are believers.

And if someone is in hardship, then a delay until ease;

and that you remit it as charity is better for you, if you knew.

And if he upon whom the due rests is foolish, or weak, or cannot dictate himself, let his legal guardian dictate, then, with justice.

and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, from among those whose testimony you approve, so that if one of the two strays, the other may remind her.

That is more equitable with God, more upright for testimony, and closer to not doubting — except if it is an immediate trade that you conduct among yourselves: no blame then upon you for not writing it down.

And if you are on a journey and find no scribe, then a pledge taken.

You had a sign in those two battalions that met:

That is because they said: "The Fire will touch us only for numbered days"; and what they used to invent deluded them in their Law.

Say: "If you love God, follow me: God will love you and forgive you your offenses.

He said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a boy, when old age has already reached me, and my wife is barren?"

You were not with them when they cast their reeds as to which of them would have custody of Maryam,

and you were not with them when they quarreled. When the Agents said: "O Maryam! God announces to you a word from Himself,

She said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a child, when no human has touched me?"

When He decrees a matter, He only says to it: 'Be',

and it is."

I create for you, from clay, the form of a bird, then I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird, with God's permission.

There is surely in that a sign for you, if you are believers.

Then to Me will be your return, and I will judge between you concerning what you used to differ over.

He created him from earth, then said to him: "Be",

and he was.

so do not be among those who contend.

Ibrahim was neither Reoriented nor a Helper, but he was wholly turned toward God, true to Him alone,

and he was not among those who associate.

It is not for any human to whom God has given the Scripture, the judgment, and the charge of informing, to then say to men: "Be obedient to me, besides God"; but rather: "Be spiritual masters, by reason of what you teach of the Scripture and what you study."

All food was permitted to the Sons of Israel, except what Israel had prohibited to himself, before the Tawrah was sent down.

Say: "Bring, then, the Tawrah, and recite it, if you are veracious."

and he was not among those who associate."

and whoever enters it is secure.

And remember God's blessing upon you, when you were enemies, and He reconciled your cores, so that you became, by His blessing, brothers;

and you were at the edge of a pit of fire, and He saved you from it.

And let there be from among you a community that calls to good, orders what is recognized, and forbids what is disavowed.

And do not be like those who divided themselves and diverged after the clear proofs had come to them.

As for those whose faces will have darkened: "Did you disown after your faith? Taste, then, the punishment, for having disowned."

You are the best community brought forth for mankind: you order what is recognized, you forbid what is disavowed, and you believe in God.

And had the people of the Scripture believed, it would have been better for them.

That is because they used to disown the signs of God, and kill the informants without right.

It is for having disobeyed and crossed the limits.

We have already made the signs clear to you, if you reason.

so travel through the earth and look at what was the end of those who denied.

And do not slacken, and do not grieve: you are the most exalted, if you are believers.

You indeed wished for death before meeting it; you have now seen it, and you were looking on.

And it is not for any Self to die, except with the permission of God,

And their only saying was to say: "Our Guardian, forgive us our offenses and our excesses in our conduct, make firm our steps, and help us against the people who disown."

saying: "Had we had, in this matter, any power, we would not have been killed here."

Say: "Had you been in your houses, those for whom killing was prescribed would certainly have gone forth to the places where they were to lie down" — and so that God might test what is in your chests, and purify what is in your cores.

O you who have believed! Do not be like those who disowned, and who say of their brothers, when they travel through the land or go off on an expedition: "Had they stayed with us, they would not have died, and would not have been killed" — so that God may make of it a desolation in their cores.

and had you been surly, hard of core, they would certainly have dispersed away from you.

It is not for an informant to commit an embezzlement;

God has indeed graced the believers, by raising up among them a messenger, from among themselves, who recites His signs to them, purifies them, and teaches them the Scripture and the wisdom, though before they were in manifest error.

Say: "Avert death from yourselves, then, if you are veracious."

but fear Me, if you are believers.

It is not for God to forsake the believers in the state you are in, without distinguishing the vile from the wholesome,

and it is not for God to let you pierce what escapes the senses,

say: "Messengers before me indeed came to you with clear proofs, and with what you said; why then did you kill them, if you are veracious?"

God is indeed, over you, an Observer.

that is a great crime.

And whoever is rich, let him refrain;

and whoever is poor, let him eat from it according to what is recognized.

But if there are more than two women, two-thirds of what is left belongs to them;

and if she is alone, half belongs to her.

And to his father and mother, to each of them, a sixth of what he leaves, if he has a child;

but if he has no child, and his father and mother inherit from him, to his mother belongs a third.

If he has siblings, to his mother belongs a sixth,

God is indeed All-Knowing, Wise.

And to you belongs half of what your wives leave, if they have no child;

but if they have a child, to you belongs a quarter of what they leave, after a testament they may have made, or a debt.

And to them belongs a quarter of what you leave, if you have no child;

but if you have a child, to them belongs an eighth of what you leave, after a testament you may have made, or a debt.

And if a man whose inheritance passes in the absence of any ascendant or descendant, or a woman in the same case, has a brother or a sister, to each of them belongs a sixth;

but if they are more numerous than that, they share in the third, after a testament that may have been made, or a debt, without harm.

God is indeed the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Benevolent.

God is All-Knowing, Wise.

And if you want to replace one wife with another, and you have given one of them a quintal, take nothing of it back.

It was an indecency and an abomination,

but if you have not consummated marriage with them, no blame upon you —

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

God is indeed All-Knowing, Wise.

unless it is a trade arising from mutual satisfaction among you.

God is indeed, toward you, Benevolent.

And that is, for God, an easy thing.

God is indeed All-Knowing of all things.

God is indeed witness over all things.

God is indeed Most High, Great.

God is All-Knowing, Intimately Acquainted.

God indeed does not love him who is arrogant, boastful.

whoever has the Diverter as an acolyte, what an evil acolyte!

God is All-Knowing of them.

And if it is a good deed, He doubles it, and grants, from Himself, an immense reward.

And if you are sick, or on a journey, or one of you has come from relieving himself, or you have known a woman in intimacy, and you find no water, then aim at a wholesome outcrop, and wipe your faces and your hands with it.

God is indeed Ever-Overlooking, Most-Forgiving.

And had they said: "We have heard and we have deferred", and: "Listen", and: "Look at us", it would have been better for them, and more upright;

And God's command is always a thing done.

God is indeed All-Powerful, Wise.

God is indeed the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.

And if you dispute among yourselves over something, refer it to God and to the messenger, if you believe in God and the Last Day.

And had they done what they were exhorted to do, it would have been better for them, and would have made them firmer;

and if misfortune strikes you, he says: "God has blessed me, since I was not with them as a witness."

But if a favor from God betides you, he will surely say, as if there had been no affection between you and him: "Would that I had been with them, I would then have attained an immense triumph!"

the scheming of the Diverter is indeed weak.

Wherever you are, death will overtake you, even were you in impregnable towers.

And had it come from other than God, they would have found in it much divergence.

Whoever intercedes with a good intercession will have a portion of it;

and whoever intercedes with an evil intercession will bear his responsibility for it.

God is, over all things, a steward.

God is indeed, over all things, a reckoner.

They would like you to disown as they disowned, so that you might be equal;

And it is not for a believer to kill a believer,

And if the slain belonged to a people hostile to you, while being a believer, then restoring the independence of a believing person bound by a debt.

And if he belonged to a people between whom and you there is a solemn engagement, then a compensation delivered to his family, and restoring the independence of a believing person bound by a debt.

God is All-Knowing, Wise.

Thus were you before, and God graced you.

God is indeed Intimately Acquainted with what you do.

and God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Indeed, those whom the Agents keep faithfully while they are wronging themselves — they say: "In what situation were you?"

They say: "We were reduced to weakness on the earth."

They say: "Was God's earth not vast enough for you to emigrate in it?"

God is Ever-Overlooking, Most-Forgiving.

And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

Those who disown are indeed, for you, a manifest enemy.

And when you are among them, and you lead the Contact for them, let a group of them stand with you, and let them take their arms.

Then, when they have prostrated, let them pass behind you,

And no blame upon you, if rain is a nuisance to you or you are sick, for laying down your arms;

The Contact is, for the believers, a prescription at fixed times.

If you suffer, they indeed suffer as you suffer; but you hope from God what they do not hope.

God is All-Knowing, Wise.

And do not be, for the traitors, a quarreler.

God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

God indeed does not love him who is a grand traitor, a transgressor.

God encompasses perfectly what they do.

So here you are, who argued in their favor in the present life; but who will argue with God in their favor on the Day of Appearance? Or who will be, for them, a trustee?

God is All-Knowing, Wise.

And God has sent down upon you the Scripture and the wisdom, and taught you what you did not know.

The favor of God upon you is immense.

God encompasses all things perfectly.

And whatever good you do, God is indeed All-Knowing of it."

but if you do good and guard yourselves, God is indeed Intimately Acquainted with what you do.

And if you reconcile and guard yourselves, God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

God is Vast, Wise.

God is Self-Sufficient, Praiseworthy.

God is capable of that.

Whoever wants the requital of the present life — with God is the requital of the present life and of the last life.

God is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.

O you who have believed! Be firm supporters in equity, witnesses for God, even against yourselves, or your parents, or your relatives.

Whether he be rich or poor, God is closer to them both; so do not follow emotion, to the point of no longer being just.

And if you twist or turn away, God is indeed Intimately Acquainted with what you do.

Indeed, those who have believed, then disowned, then believed, then disowned, then increased in disowning — it is not for God to forgive them, nor to guide them to a way.

God will indeed bring together the hypocrites and those who disown, all together, in Jahannam — those who bide their time: if an opening comes to you from God, they say: "Were we not with you?" and if a portion falls to those who disown, they say: "Did we not take hold of you, and did we not insulate you from the believers?"

God is Grateful, All-Knowing.

God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

Whether you make a good appear, or hide it, or overlook an evil, God is indeed Ever-Overlooking, Capable.

And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

God is All-Powerful, Wise.

And there is none among the people of the Scripture who will not surely believe in him before his death; and on the Day of Appearance, he will be a witness against them.

Messengers, bearers of good tidings and warners, so that men might have no argument against God after the messengers.

God is All-Powerful, Wise.

Indeed, those who disowned and did wrong — it is not for God to forgive them, nor to guide them to a road, except the road of Jahannam, wherein they will abide eternally, forever.

And that is, for God, an easy thing.

God is All-Knowing, Wise.

Glory be to Him! He is above having a child.

Al-Massih will never disdain to be obedient to God, nor will the Agents brought near.

and he inherits from her, if she has no child.

But if there are two, then to them belong two-thirds of what he leaves;

and if there are several, brothers and sisters, then to the male, the equivalent of the share of two females.

And if you have soiled yourselves, wash yourselves.

And if you are sick, or on a journey, or one of you has come from relieving himself, or you have known a woman in intimacy, and you find no water, then aim at a wholesome outcrop, and wipe your faces and your hands with it.

O you who have believed! Be firm supporters for God, bearing witness with equity,

and God will soon inform them of what they used to do.

O people of the Scripture! Our messenger has indeed come to you, making clear to you much of what you were hiding of the Scripture, and overlooking much.

And it is to God that you should entrust yourselves, if you are believers."

I want you to return burdened with my transgression and yours, and to be among the companions of the Fire:

He said: "Woe to me! Am I unable to be like this raven, and to conceal my brother's nakedness?" And he then found himself among those who regret.

We sent down the Tawrah, wherein is guidance and light; the informants, who were true to God alone, judged by it the Reoriented, as did the spiritual masters and the rabbis, according to what they were entrusted to preserve of God's Scripture, and they were witnesses to it.

To God will be your return, all together, and He will inform you of what you used to differ over.

And guard yourselves toward God, if you are believers.

those have the worst place, and are the most astray from the straight way."

God knows best what they were withholding.

How evil is what they used to do!

How evil is what they used to do!

And they thought there would be no trial; they then became blind and deaf; then God turned toward them with clemency; then, again, they became blind and deaf,

both of them ate food.

It is for having disobeyed and crossed the limits.

They did not forbid one another a disavowed act which they committed:

how evil is what they used to do!

And had they believed in God, in the Informant, and in what was sent down to him, they would not have taken them as allies;

What! Even if their ancestors knew nothing and did not let themselves be guided?

To God will be your return, all together, and He will inform you of what you used to do.

You will hold them both in suspense after the Contact, and they will both swear by God, if you have doubts: "We will not buy anything with it, at any price, even toward a relative,

and when you created out of clay the form of a bird, with My permission, then breathed into it, and it became a bird, with My permission;

He said: "Guard yourselves toward God, if you are believers."

They said: "We want to eat from it, that our cores may be calmed, that we may know you have been veracious with us, and be witnesses to it."

Issa, son of Maryam, said: "O God, our Guardian! Send down to us a table from the sky, that it be for us a festival, for the first of us as for the last, and a sign from You;

He will say: "Glory be to You! It was not for me to say what is not my right.

If I had said it, You would have known it.

and I was a witness over them, as long as I was among them;

then, when You kept me faithfully, it was You who were the Observer over them.

No sign, among the signs of their Guardian, comes to them without their turning away from it.

the information of what they used to mock will soon reach them.

Messengers before you were indeed mocked; then what they used to mock enveloped those among them who scoffed.

Say: "Travel through the earth, then look at what was the end of those who denied."

Say: "I have been commanded to be the first of those who are true to God alone",

and never be among those who associate.

And the day when We gather them all together, then say to those who associated: "Where are your associates, whom you used to claim?"

Then their only trial will have been to say: "By God, our Guardian, we were not among those who associate."

Look how they lie against themselves! And what they used to invent will have strayed away from them.

and we will no longer deny the signs of our Guardian, and we will be among the believers!"

No! What they used to hide before has appeared to them.

He will say: "Taste then the punishment, for having disowned."

And if their turning away weighs upon you, then, if you have the capacity, seek a tunnel into the earth, or a ladder into the sky, to bring them a sign.

so never be among the ignorant.

Say: "Do you see? If the punishment of God came upon you, or the Hour came upon you, would you invoke other than God, if you are veracious?"

But their cores hardened, and the Diverter embellished for them what they were doing.

And those who have denied Our signs, the punishment will touch them, for having overstepped.

And do not chase away those who invoke their Guardian, morning and evening, wanting His direction. Nothing of their account is upon you, and nothing of your account is upon them, that you should chase them away and then be among the wrongdoers.

then to Him will be your return, and He will inform you of what you used to do.

Say: "Who saves you from the darknesses of land and sea?" — you invoke Him beseechingly and covertly: "If You save us from this, we will surely be among the grateful."

Those are the ones who will have been delivered for what they have earned; they will have a drink of boiling water and a painful punishment, for having disowned.

and the day He says: "Be",

it is.

Thus did We show Ibrahim the sovereign dominion of the heavens and the earth, that he might be among those who possess certainty.

but when it disappeared, he said: "If my Guardian does not guide me, I will surely be of the people gone astray."

Which of the two fractions, then, is more worthy of security, if you know?"

And had they associated, what they were doing would have collapsed for them.

Today, you will be recompensed with the punishment of degradation, for having said about God other than the truth, and for having grown proud before His signs."

The bonds between you are indeed cut, and what you claimed has strayed away from you.

How would He have a child, when He has no consort,

then to their Guardian will be their return, and He will inform them of what they used to do.

And even had We sent down to them the Agents, and the dead had spoken to them, and We had gathered before them everything, face to face, they would not have believed, unless God willed it;

so never be among those who contend.

Eat, then, of that over which the name of God has been mentioned, if you are believers in His signs.

Those who acquire transgression will indeed be recompensed for what they used to commit.

Is he who was dead, and to whom We gave life, and for whom We made a light with which he walks among men, like him whose example is to be in darknesses, unable to emerge from them?

Thus were embellished, for those who disown, the deeds they used to do.

A diminishment before God, and a severe punishment, will strike those who cut themselves off, for having plotted.

and He is their protector, for what they used to do.

And thus do We make the wrongdoers allies to one another, for what they used to earn.

and the present life deluded them, and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disowning.

That is because it is not in the nature of your Guardian to annihilate cities wrongfully, while their inhabitants were heedless.

Say: "O my people! Act according to your position; I too am indeed acting.

You will soon know to whom will belong the outcome of the abode.

and what is destined for their associates does not reach God,

while what is destined for God, that reaches their associates.

He will recompense them for what they used to invent.

but if it is a stillborn, they all share in it.

They went astray, and they did not let themselves be guided.

Inform me with full knowledge, if you are veracious."

Or were you witnesses, when God recommended this to you?"

Say: "I find, in what has been revealed to me, nothing prohibited to one who wants to feed on it, except that it be a dead animal, or spilled blood, or the flesh of swine — for that is filth —

and when you say a saying, be just, even toward a relative;

And here is a Scripture We have sent down, blessed; follow it, then, and guard yourselves, perhaps benevolence will be shown to you — lest you say: "The Scripture was sent down only upon two groups before us, and we were indeed heedless of their study", or lest you say: "Had the Scripture been sent down upon us, we would have been better guided than they."

We will recompense those who veer away from Our signs with the worst punishment, for having veered away from them.

On the day certain signs of your Guardian come, the faith of a Self will not benefit it, if it did not believe before, or acquired, in its faith, no good.

Indeed, those who have divided their Law and become factions, you are in no way linked to them.

then He will inform them of what they used to do.

and he was not among those who associate."

Then to your Guardian will be your return, and He will inform you of what you used to differ over.

A Scripture has been sent down to you — let there be no discomfort in your chest because of it — so that you may warn by it, and a reminder for the believers.

Their only cry, when Our rigor came to them, was to say: "We have indeed been wrongdoers."

for We were not absent.

And those whose balances are light — those are the ones who will have caused the loss of their Selves, for having done wrong toward Our signs.

except Iblis: he was not among those who prostrated.

He said: "Then descend from here: it is not for you to act proudly here; go out, then, you are indeed among the diminished."

but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers."

and he said: "Your Guardian has forbidden you this tree only to prevent you from becoming two kings, or from being among those who abide eternally."

They both said: "Our Guardian, we have wronged ourselves; if You do not forgive us and have benevolence on us, we will surely be among the losers."

until Our envoys come to keep them faithfully, and say: "Where are those you used to invoke besides God?" They will say: "They have strayed away from us",

and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disowning.

And the first of them will say to the last: "You then have no advantage over us; taste, then, the punishment, for what you used to earn."

we would not have let ourselves be guided, had God not guided us.

And it will be called out to them: "This is the Garden which you have inherited, for what you used to do."

And the companions of the Heights will call out to men whom they recognize by their marks: "Your force has availed you nothing, nor your growing proud."

Today, then, We forget them, as they forgot the meeting of this day of theirs, and because they used to stubbornly reject Our signs."

On the day its prediction comes, those who had forgotten it before will say: "The messengers of our Guardian did indeed come with the truth; do we have intercessors, that they might intercede for us, or could we be sent back, so that we might act otherwise than we used to act?"

They will have caused the loss of their Selves, and what they used to invent will have strayed away from them.

They were indeed a blind people.

They said: "Have you come to us so that we may obey God alone, and forsake what our ancestors used to obey? Bring us then what you promise us, if you are among the veracious."

So We saved him, and those with him, by a benevolence from Us, and We cut off to the last remnant those who had denied Our signs: they were not believers.

and said: "O Salih! Bring us what you promise us, if you are among the envoys."

And the only answer of his people was to say: "Expel them from your city;

So We saved him, and his family, except his wife, who was among those who lingered behind.

So look at what was the end of the severed.

That is better for you, if you are believers.

And remember that you were few, and He made you many.

And look at what was the end of the corrupters.

And if a group among you has believed in what I was sent with, and another group has not believed, be patient then until God judges between us:

He said: "Even if we were averse to it?

It is not for us to re-enter it, unless God, our Guardian, wills it.

Those who had denied Shu'ayb, they were the losers.

Then We replaced evil with good, until they prospered

but they denied, and We then seized them for what they used to earn.

Their messengers had indeed come to them with clear proofs, but they were not disposed to believe what they had first denied.

So look at what was the end of the corrupters.

He said: "If you have come with a sign, bring it then, if you are among the veracious."

And the workers of illusion came to Fir'awn; they said: "Will we surely have a reward, if we are the victors?"

They said: "O Moussa! Either you throw, or we will be the ones who throw."

The truth then came to pass, and what they were doing became vain.

We then sent upon them the flood, the locusts, the lice, the frogs, and the blood, detailed signs; but they grew proud and were a severed people.

We then took vengeance upon them, and We drowned them in the deep, for having denied Our signs and remained heedless of them.

And We made the people who had been reduced to weakness inherit the risings and the settings of the land which We had blessed.

and We destroyed what Fir'awn and his people were doing, and what they were erecting.

and vain is what they were doing."

He said: "You will not see Me, but look at the mountain: if it remains in place, then you will see Me."

He said: "O Moussa! I have chosen you among mankind for My messages and for My word; take, then, what I have given you, and be among the grateful."

That is because they denied Our signs and remained heedless of them.

And those who denied Our signs and the meeting of the last life, their works have collapsed; will they be recompensed except according to what they used to do?

They took it, and were wrongdoers.

And when they were struck with regret, seeing that they had gone astray, they said: "If our Guardian does not have benevolence on us and does not forgive us, we will surely be among the losers."

I will inscribe it, then, for those who guard themselves, give pure liberality, and who believe in Our signs, those who follow the messenger, the Informant without a prior Scripture, whom they find written down with them in the Tawrah and the Injil, who orders them what is recognized and forbids them what is disavowed, permits them the wholesome things and prohibits to them the vile things, and lifts from them their yoke and the shackles that were upon them.

but it was themselves that they wronged.

But those among them who did wrong substituted a saying other than what had been said to them; We then sent upon them a defilement from the sky, for having done wrong.

And ask them about the city that was near the sea: when they crossed the limits concerning the Rest, their fish came to them on the day of their Rest, afloat; and on the day they did not keep the Rest, they did not come to them.

Thus did We test them, for having overstepped.

When they forgot what they had been reminded of, We saved those who forbade evil, and We seized the wrongdoers with a harsh punishment, for having overstepped.

Then, when they insolently defied what had been forbidden them, We said to them: "Be apes, rebuffed."

Lest they say, on the Day of Appearance: "We were indeed heedless of this", or that they say: "It was our ancestors who, before, associated, and we were only descendants after them.

And recite to them the information concerning him to whom We gave Our signs, and who divested himself of them, so that the Diverter pursued him, and he was among the errant.

Evil is the example of the people who denied Our signs, and who wronged themselves.

They will be recompensed according to what they used to do.

Have they not looked into the sovereign dominion of the heavens and the earth, and into everything God has created, and that it may be that their term has already drawn near?

And if I knew what escapes the senses, I would indeed have amassed abundant good things,

and when she became heavy with it, they both invoked God, their Guardian: "If You give us a sound child, we will surely be among the grateful."

invoke them, then, and let them answer you, if you are veracious.

And remember your Guardian, within yourself, beseechingly and with fear, without saying it aloud, in the morning and in the evening, and do not be among the heedless.

and defer to God and His messenger, if you are believers."

And when God promised you that one of the two groups would be yours, while you wished it would be the one without arms.

And do not be like those who say: "We have heard", while they do not hear.

And when they said: "O God! If this is indeed the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky, or bring us a painful punishment."

But it was not for God to punish them while you were among them,

and it was not for God to punish them while they were asking forgiveness.

And what reason would they have for God not to punish them, while they bar from the inviolable place of prostration, without even being its allies?

And their Contact, near the House, was nothing but a tumult and a barring.

Taste then the punishment, for having disowned.

So they will spend them, then it will become for them a desolation, then they will be overcome.

And fight them until there is no more trial, and the Law is entirely for God.

And know that, of everything you take as spoils, a fifth belongs to God, to the messenger, to relatives, to orphans, to the destitute, and to the passing traveler — if you believe in God and in what We sent down upon Our obedient one, on the day of the Discernment, the day the two forces met.

but so that God might bring to its term a matter that was a thing done, so that whoever was to be annihilated might be annihilated upon clear evidence, and whoever was to live might live upon clear evidence.

And when He showed them to you, when you met, as few in your eyes, and made you appear few in their eyes, so that God might bring to its term a matter that was a thing done.

And do not be like those who came out of their abodes in wantonness and for show before mankind, and who bar from the way of God.

That is because God never changes a blessing He has granted a people, until they change what is in themselves; and God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

And all were wrongdoers.

If there are, among you, twenty patient men, they will overcome two hundred;

and if there are a hundred among you, they will overcome a thousand of those who disown, for they are a people who do not understand.

So if there are a hundred among you, patient, they will overcome two hundred;

and if there are a thousand among you, they will overcome two thousand, with God's permission.

It was not for an informant to have captives, until he had fully subdued the land.

If you do not do this, there will be a trial on earth, and great corruption.

How could there be, for the associators, a pact with God and with His messenger — except those with whom you made a pact near the inviolable place of prostration? As long as they stand straight with you, stand straight with them.

How evil is what they used to do!

God is more worthy that you should dread Him, if you are believers.

It is not for the associators to populate the places of prostration of God, bearing witness against themselves of disowning.

Only he populates the places of prostration of God who has believed in God and the Last Day, has maintained the Contact, given pure liberality, and dreaded none but God alone — it may be that those are among those who let themselves be guided.

Say: "If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses, your kinsmen, the goods you have acquired, a trade whose decline you dread, and dwellings with which you are satisfied, are dearer to you than God, His messenger, and striving in His way, then bide your time, until God brings His command."

on the day when it will be heated in the fire of Jahannam, and their foreheads, their sides, and their backs will be seared with it: "This is what you hoarded for yourselves; taste then what you used to hoard!"

That is better for you, if you knew.

Had it been a near gain and a moderate journey, they would have followed you; but the distance seemed long to them.

for you are a people of oversteppers."

They take oaths to you by God, to satisfy you; but God and His messenger are more worthy that they should seek to satisfy Him, if they are believers.

And if you question them, they will surely say: "We were only immersing ourselves and playing."

Say: "Was it God, His signs, and His messenger that you were mocking?"

If it is overlooked for one group among you, another group will be punished, for having been severed.

Like those who preceded you: they were superior to you in strength, and had more goods and children; they enjoyed their allotment, and you have enjoyed your allotment as those before you enjoyed their allotment, and you have immersed yourselves as they immersed themselves.

And God was not going to wrong them;

but it was themselves that they wronged.

If they turn back, it will be better for them;

And among them are some who made a pact with God: "If He gives us of His favor, we will surely give in charity, and we will surely be among those who are sound."

So He made this followed by hypocrisy in their cores, until the day they will meet Him, for having failed God in what they had promised Him, and for having lied.

Say: "The fire of Jahannam is even more intense in heat" — if only they understood!

Let them laugh little, then, and weep much, as a recompense for what they used to earn.

And when a surah is sent down: "Believe in God, and strive with His messenger", those among them who have the means ask you permission, and say: "Let us be with those who remain seated."

They were satisfied to be with those who stay behind,

then you will be brought back to the Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is witnessed, and He will inform you of what you used to do."

as a recompense for what they used to earn.

and you will be brought back to the Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is witnessed, and He will inform you of what you used to do."

It was not for the Informant, nor for those who believed, to ask forgiveness for the associators, even if they were close relatives, once it had become clear to them that they were the companions of the Blaze.

And Ibrahim asked forgiveness for his father only because of a promise he had made him;

It was not for God to lead a people astray after having guided them, without first having made clear to them what they must guard themselves against.

O you who have believed! Guard yourselves toward God, and be with the veracious.

It was not for the people of the Capital, nor for the notables around them, to stay behind, apart from the messenger of God, nor to prefer their own Selves to his.

so that God may recompense them according to the most beautiful of what they used to do.

It was not for the believers to mobilize all together.

Is it then a wonder for men that We revealed to a man among them: "Warn mankind,

As for those who disowned, they will have a drink of boiling water and a painful punishment, for having disowned.

Indeed, those who do not hope for Our meeting, who were content with the present life and were calmed by it, and those who are heedless of Our signs — those are the ones whose resort will be the Fire, for what they used to earn.

Thus were embellished, for the excessive ones, the deeds they used to do.

but they were not disposed to believe.

Say: "It is not for me to change it of my own accord;

Mankind was but one single community, then they diverged.

until, when you are in the vessel and it sails with them by a wholesome wind, and they rejoice in it, a violent wind comes upon it, the swell comes at them from every side, and they presume they are encompassed — then they call upon God, devoting the Law exclusively to Him: "If You save us from this, we will surely be among the grateful."

then to Us will be your return, and We will inform you of what you used to do.

And on the day when We gather them all together, then say to those who associated: "Stay in your place, you and your associates" — then We will separate them from one another,

and their associates will say: "It was not us that you obeyed."

God suffices as a witness between us and you: we were indeed heedless of your obedience.

and what they used to invent will have strayed away from them.

This Recitation was not something that could have been invented besides God;

and call upon whomever you can, besides God, if you are veracious."

So look at what was the end of the wrongdoers.

but will you make the deaf hear, even though they do not reason?

but will you guide the blind, even though they do not see clearly?

They are indeed losers, those who denied the meeting with God, and they did not let themselves be guided.

And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are veracious?"

Now?! When you used to seek to hasten it!"

are you recompensed except for what you used to earn?"

You are not in any situation, nor do you recite any Recitation from it, nor do you do any deed, without Our being witnesses over you when you indulge in it.

those who believed and used to guard themselves.

then to Us will be their return; then We will make them taste the severe punishment, for having disowned.

And recite to them the information concerning Nuh, when he said to his people: "O my people! If my standing among you and my reminder of God's signs weigh upon you, it is to God that I entrust myself.

let your resolve no longer be, for you, a clouded matter,

and I have been commanded to be among those true to God alone."

So look at what was the end of those who were warned.

Then, after him, We raised up messengers to their peoples; they brought them clear proofs, but they were not disposed to believe what they had first denied.

Then, after them, We raised up Moussa and Harun to Fir'awn and his court, with Our signs; but they grew proud and were a severed people.

They said: "Have you come to us to turn us away from what we found our ancestors upon, and so that greatness, on earth, would belong to you both? We will not give credence to you two."

And Moussa said: "O my people, if you believe in God, entrust yourselves to Him, if you are true to God alone."

"Now?! When you disobeyed before, and were among the corrupters!

Today, then, We save you as to your body, so that you may be a sign for those who come after you."

Your Guardian will indeed decide between them, on the Day of Appearance, concerning what they used to differ over.

If you are in doubt about what We have sent down to you, ask those who read the Scripture before you.

so never be among those who contend.

And do not be among those who denied the signs of God, you would then be among the losers.

Was there ever a city that believed and whose faith benefited it — except the people of Younes! When they believed, We removed from them the punishment of disgrace in the present life, and We granted them enjoyment for a time.

Is it you who would compel men to become believers?

It is not for any Self to believe except with God's permission,

Say: "O mankind! If you are in doubt about my Law, I do not obey those you obey besides God,

And I have been commanded to be among the believers,

and never be among those who associate.'"

And it is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days, while His Edifice was founded upon the water, so as to test you: which of you acts best.

and what they used to mock will envelop them.

Say: "Then bring ten invented surahs like it, and call upon whomever you can, besides God, if you are veracious."

Whoever wants the present life and its adornment, We faithfully repay him for his works therein, and he will not be shortchanged in it:

and vain will be what they were doing.

Is he who relies on a clear proof from his Guardian, with a witness from Him coming in his wake?

so do not contend about it:

Those are the ones who, on earth, will not be able to render Him powerless, and who will have, besides God, no ally:

They could neither hear, nor see clearly.

Those are the ones who have caused the loss of their Selves, and what they invented has strayed away from them.

He said: "O my people, do you see? If I rely on a clear proof from my Guardian, and He has granted me a benevolence from Him, and it has become obscured for you, shall we impose it upon you while you are averse to it?

They said: "O Nuh, you have indeed argued with us, and abounded in arguing; bring us then what you promise us, if you are among the veracious."

And my counsel will be of no use to you, even were I to wish to counsel you, if God wants to make you err:

so do not grieve over what they were doing.

And Nuh called his son, who stood apart: "O my little one, embark with us, and do not be with those who disown."

And the wave intervened between them, and he was among the drowned.

I exhort you not to be among the ignorant."

and if You do not forgive me and show me benevolence, I will be among the losers."

you did not know them, neither you nor your people, before this.

They said: "O Salih, you were among us a hope before this; do you forbid us to obey what our ancestors obeyed? We are surely in a troubling doubt about what you call us to."

He said: "O my people, do you see? If I rely on a clear proof from my Guardian, and He has granted me, from Him, a benevolence, who then would help me against God if I disobeyed Him?

And his people came to him, rushing, though they had previously been committing evil deeds.

What remains with God is better for you, if you are believers;

He said: "O my people, do you see? If I rely on a clear proof from my Guardian, and He has provided me, from Him, with a fine provision...

O my people, act according to your position; I too am acting:

So do not contend about what those people obey:

Were there not, among the generations before you, possessors of a remnant who forbade corruption on earth, except a few among those We saved?

And those who did wrong followed the affluence they were given, and became severed.

And it is not in the nature of your Guardian to annihilate the cities wrongfully, while their inhabitants make things sound.

And say to those who do not believe: "Act according to your position; we act; and wait: we too are indeed waiting."

We relate to you the most beautiful of accounts, by revealing to you this Recitation, though you were surely, before it, among the heedless.

There were indeed, in Youssof and his brothers, signs for those who ask.

Kill Youssof, or deport him to some land, so that your father's face may be freed for you alone, and that you may be, after that, sound people."

One of them said: "Do not kill Youssof, but throw him into the depths of the well: some travelers will pick him up, if you must act."

But you will not give us credit, even if we are veracious."

And they sold him for a docked price, a few numbered coins: they attached little importance to him.

And a witness from her family bore witness: "If his shirt is torn from the front, she speaks truly, and he is among the liars; but if his shirt is torn from behind, she has lied,

and you, ask forgiveness for your offense: you are among those at fault."

and if he does not do what I order him, he will surely be imprisoned, and will surely be among the diminished."

He said: "My Guardian, prison is dearer to me than what they call me to; and if You do not turn their scheme away from me, I will yearn toward them and be among the ignorant."

it is not for us to associate anything with God.

O court, enlighten me about my vision, if you can cross through visions."

And the reward of the last life is surely better for those who believe and guard themselves.

When they entered as their father had commanded them, it was of no use to them against God, except for a need in Yaacoub's Self, which he satisfied;

and said: "I am, indeed, your brother: so do not grieve over what they were doing."

They said: "By God, you well know we did not come to sow corruption on this land, and we are not thieves."

They said: "What then will be his recompense, if you are liars?"

he could not, under the king's law, take his brother, unless God willed it.

he said: "You have the worst place,

They said: "O Powerful One, he has a father, a very old man; so take one of us in his place: we see you among those who do good."

and we attest only to what we know, and we could not preserve what escaped the senses.

And ask the city where we were, and the caravan with which we returned: we are surely veracious.'"

They said: "By God, you will not cease to remember Youssof, until you are worn out or until you are annihilated."

They said: "By God, God has indeed preferred you over us, and we were surely at fault."

They said: "O our father, ask forgiveness for our offenses: we were indeed at fault."

you were not with them when they agreed on their affair while plotting.

Have they not traveled through the earth and looked at what was the end of those before them?

There was indeed, in their account, a lesson for the possessors of intelligence:

it was not an invented discourse,

And if you marvel, marvelous is their saying: "When we are earth, shall we really be in a new creation?"

and what then was My sanction?

and it is not for any messenger to bring a sign except by God's permission.

They said: "You are only humans like us; you want to bar us from what our ancestors obeyed. So bring us a manifest authority."

It is not for us to bring you an authority, except with God's permission.

and every obstinate tyrant failed; beyond him, Jahannam, and he will be given to drink there a purulent water, which he will sip little by little, hardly able to ingest it; death will come to him from every side without his dying; and beyond that, a harsh punishment.

And they will all come out before God, and the weak will say to those who grew proud: "We were indeed your followers; can you then be of any use to us against God's punishment?"

And the Diverter will say, when the matter is decided: "God indeed made you a true promise, and I made you a promise, but I failed you; I had no authority over you, except to call you, and you answered me. So do not censure me, but censure yourselves: I cannot answer your cry, nor can you answer mine. I indeed disown that you associated me with God before."

"Had you not sworn, before, that you would know no passing away?

even if their plot were of a kind to make the mountains vanish.

Many a time, those who disown would like to have been true to God alone.

And they said: "O you upon whom the Reminder has been sent down, you are surely deranged! Why do you not bring us the Agents, if you are among the veracious?"

and then, they would be granted no reprieve.

and no messenger ever came to them but they mocked him.

The Agents then prostrated, all together, except Iblis: he refused to be among those who prostrated.

He said: "O Iblis, what is with you, that you are not among those who prostrate?"

He said: "It is not for me to prostrate before a human You created from resonant clay, from molded mud."

They said: "We bring you this glad tiding in truth: so do not be among those who lose heart."

They said: "We bring you rather that about which they used to contend. We have come to you with the truth, and we are surely veracious.

He said: "Here are my daughters, if you must act."

And the companions of the Thicket were indeed wrongdoers,

and We gave them Our signs, but they turned away from them.

And they carved, in the mountains, houses, in complete security.

and what they had earned availed them nothing.

By your Guardian, We shall surely question them all about what they used to do.

so glorify, with praise, your Guardian, and be among those who prostrate,

And they carry your loads to a land you would not have reached except with great hardship on yourselves:

Then, on the Day of Appearance, He will cover them with disgrace and say: "Where are My associates, about whom you set yourselves in breach?"

They then offer their submission: "We were doing no evil!" — But yes!

God is indeed All-Knowing of what you were doing.

saying: "Peace be upon you! Enter the Garden, for what you used to do."

but it was themselves that they wronged.

and what they used to mock enveloped them.

So travel through the earth and look at what was the end of those who denied.

But yes! It is a promise incumbent upon Him, in truth — but most men do not know — so that He may make clear to them that on which they differ, and so that those who disown may know that they were liars.

Our only saying, for a thing, when We want it, is to say to it: "Be",

and it is.

and the reward of the last life is even greater, if they knew —

And We sent, before you, none but men to whom We revealed: so ask the keepers of the Reminder, if you do not know — with the clear proofs and the Formularies.

By God, you will surely be questioned about what you used to invent.

And when those who associated see their associates, they will say: "Our Guardian, these are our associates whom we used to invoke besides You."

and what they used to invent will stray away from them.

Those who disown and who barred from God's way — We shall add for them a punishment upon the punishment, for the corruption they sowed.

And do not be like her who unravels her thread, after having firmly spun it, reducing it to fibers; you take your oaths as a means of deceit among yourselves, on the pretext that one community is more numerous than another:

and He will surely make clear to you, on the Day of Appearance, that on which you differed.

and you will surely be questioned about what you did.

what is with God is better for you, if you knew.

And We shall surely recompense those who were patient with their reward, according to the most beautiful of their deeds.

Whoever does a sound deed, male or female, while being a believer, We shall surely make him live a wholesome life, and We shall surely recompense them with their reward, according to the most beautiful of their deeds.

And when We substitute one sign for another sign — God knows best what He sends down — they say: "You are but an inventor."

And God multiplies an example: a city that was secure, calm, to which its provision came with ease from everywhere; then it disowned God's blessings, and God made it taste the garment of hunger and fear, for what they were doing.

and be grateful for God's blessing, if it is Him that you obey.

but it was themselves that they wronged.

Ibrahim was a community, devoted to God, wholly turned toward Him, and he was not among those who associate,

and he was not among those who associate.

your Guardian will surely judge between them, on the Day of Appearance, concerning that in which they differed.

And do not grieve over them, and do not be constrained because of what they plot.

He was a grateful obedient one.

and it was a promise, a thing done.

for the human being is hasty.

And We never punish until We have raised up a messenger.

Whoever wants the immediate life, We hasten for him in it what We will, to whom We want; then We assign him Jahannam, where he will burn, reproved, driven away.

And whoever wants the last life and endeavours for it with the effort it deserves, while being a believer — those are the ones whose effort will be acknowledged.

and your Guardian's endowment is never restricted.

If you are sound, He is indeed, toward those ever-returning to Him, Most-Forgiving.

Those who squander are the brothers of the Diverters,

and the Diverter is, toward his Guardian, a great disowner.

He is indeed, toward His obedient ones, Intimately Acquainted and All-Seeing.

Killing them is a great fault.

And do not approach fornication: it is an indecency, and what an evil way!

for he will be helped.

for the pact will be questioned.

hearing, sight, and the Conscience — each of them will be questioned.

All that, its evil is, with your Guardian, detestable.

Say: "If there were, with Him, deities, as they say, they would then have sought a way to the Holder of the Edifice."

He is Forbearing, Most-Forgiving.

And they said: "When we are bones and crumbled remains, shall we really be raised in a new creation?"

Say: "Be stone, or iron, or any creation that looms great in your chests."

Say: "It may be that it is near.

the Diverter is indeed, to the human being, a manifest enemy.

for your Guardian's punishment is one to beware of.

that is recorded in the register.

He is, toward you, Benevolent.

the human being is a great disowner.

And whoever is blind in this life will be blind in the last life, and further astray as to the way.

the Recitation of dawn is witnessed.

falsehood is indeed bound to vanish."

and when ill touches him, he is hopeless.

His favor toward you is great.

Say: "If humans and the Occulted united to bring the equal of this Recitation, they would not bring its equal, even were they mutual support to one another."

And they said: "We will not give you credit until you make a spring gush forth for us from the earth, or you have a garden of palm trees and vines in which you make rivers gush forth abundantly, or you make the sky tumble upon us in pieces as you claim, or you bring God and the Agents before us, or you have a house of gilding, or you ascend to the sky — and we will not give credit even to your ascent until you bring down upon us a register we can read."

Say: "Glory be to my Guardian! Am I anything but a human, a messenger?"

Say: "Had there been on earth Agents walking about calmly, We would have sent down to them, from the sky, an Agent, as messenger."

He is indeed, toward His obedient ones, Intimately Acquainted and All-Seeing."

That is their recompense, for having disowned Our signs and said: "When we are bones and crumbled remains, shall we really be raised in a new creation?"

The human being is stingy.

those to whom knowledge was given before it, when it is recited to them, fall prostrate on their chins, saying: 'Glory be to our Guardian! Our Guardian's promise is surely a thing done.'

And say: "Praise be to God, who has not taken a child, who has no associate in the dominion, and who has no protector against humiliation,"

Or did you suppose that the companions of the Cave and of ar-Raqim were, among Our signs, a marvel?

and do not defer to one whose core We have made heedless of Our remembrance, who has followed his emotion, and whose affair is excess.

and We made a river gush forth between them; and he had fructified wealth.

And he had no battalion to help him besides God,

and he could not help himself.

God is capable of all things.

except Iblis: he was among the Occulted, and he overstepped the command of his Guardian.

I did not make them witnesses to the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor to their own creation, and I have never taken those who mislead as an arm.

but the human being is, more than anything, given to arguing.

He said: "That is what we were seeking."

As for the boat, it belonged to destitute people working at sea; I wanted to make it defective, for beyond them was a king who was taking every boat by force.

As for the boy, his father and mother were believers, and we dreaded that he would crush them with immoderation and disowning,

As for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys of the Capital, and beneath it was a treasure belonging to them;

their father was sound, and your Guardian wanted them to reach their full maturity and extract their treasure themselves, as a benevolence from your Guardian;

but when the promise of my Guardian comes, He will flatten it — and the promise of my Guardian is true."

And We shall present, that Day, Jahannam to those who disown, in full view — those whose eyes were under a veil, away from My remembrance, and who could not hear at all.

Those who have believed and done sound deeds will indeed have, as a lodging, the Gardens of the Firdaws, wherein they will abide eternally, not seeking to be shifted from it.

Say: "If the sea were ink for the words of my Guardian, the sea would be exhausted before the words of my Guardian were exhausted, even if We brought the like of it in reinforcement."

So whoever hopes for the meeting with his Guardian, let him do a sound deed and associate no one in obedience to his Guardian."

he said: "My Guardian, the bone has indeed grown frail within me, the head has blazed white, and never, in invoking You, my Guardian, have I been wretched.

And I have indeed feared my kin after me, and my wife is barren. So bestow on me, from Yourself, a protector who will inherit from me and inherit from the clan of Yaacoub,

He said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a boy, when my wife is barren and I have reached, in old age, utter decrepitude?"

He said: "So it will be. Your Guardian has said: That is easy for Me, and I created you before, when you were nothing."

and he guarded himself.

And virtuous toward his parents, he was neither tyrannical nor disobedient.

And mention, in the Scripture, Maryam, when she secluded herself from her people in a place toward the east and took, apart from them, a veil.

She said: "I indeed take refuge from you with the All-Benevolent! If you guard yourself…"

She said: "How shall I have a boy, when no human has touched me and I have not been unchaste?"

It is a matter already decreed."

She carried him, then secluded herself with him in a far-off place.

The pangs of childbirth drove her to the trunk of the palm tree. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and been a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!"

O sister of Harun, your father was not a man of evil, nor your mother unchaste."

They said: "How shall we speak to one who is a young child in the cradle?"

The child said: "I am indeed the obedient one of God. He has given me the Scripture and made me an informant; He has made me blessed wherever I may be, and enjoined upon me the Contact and pure liberality as long as I live, and virtue toward my mother.

It is not for God to take a child.

When He decrees a matter, He only says to it: "Be",

and it is.

And mention, in the Scripture, Ibrahim: he was a veracious man, an informant, when he said to his father: "O my father, why do you obey what neither hears nor sees clearly and avails you nothing?

the Diverter is indeed disobedient toward the All-Benevolent.

O my father, I fear that a punishment from the All-Benevolent will touch you, and you become an ally of the Diverter."

Ibrahim said: "Peace be upon you. I will ask my Guardian's forgiveness for you: He has ever been attentive to me. I draw apart from you and from what you invoke besides God, and I invoke my Guardian; it may be that, in invoking my Guardian, I shall not be wretched."

And mention, in the Scripture, Moussa: he was devoted exclusively to God, and he was a messenger, an informant.

And mention, in the Scripture, Isma'il: he was true to his promise, and he was a messenger, an informant. He would enjoin upon his people the Contact and pure liberality,

and he was, with his Guardian, well-pleasing.

And mention, in the Scripture, Idris: he was a veracious man, an informant.

And We elevated him to a lofty station.

His promise is indeed to be fulfilled.

Such is the Garden that We shall give as inheritance, among Our obedient ones, to whoever guarded himself.

And your Guardian is never forgetful."

Does the human being not remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?

And there is none of you but will arrive at it: that is, for your Guardian, an irrevocable sentence.

Say: "Whoever is in error, let the All-Benevolent extend for him a long respite,

until, seeing what they are promised — either the punishment or the Hour — they know who has the worst place and who is weakest in army."

And they have taken, besides God, deities, that they might be a might for them. By no means!

They will disown their obedience and stand against them as adversaries.

Strengthen through him my resolve, and associate him with my task, so that we may glorify You abundantly and remember You abundantly; You are All-Seeing of us."

So set between us and you an appointment, which neither we nor you shall fail, at a fair place."

They said: "Moussa, either you throw, or we shall be the first to throw."

He will say: "My Guardian, why have You gathered me blind, while I used to see clearly?"

And had it not been for a word that preceded from your Guardian, and a term already set, it would have been inevitable.

And We sent, before you, none but men to whom We revealed: so ask the keepers of the Reminder, if you do not know.

nor were they eternal.

How many a city, doing wrong, have We shattered, bringing into being after it another people!

They said: "Woe to us — we have indeed been wrongdoers!"

had We been ones to do so.

Had there been in the heavens and the earth deities other than God, both would have become corrupt.

Have those who disowned not seen that the heavens and the earth were a joined mass, and We split them apart?

And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are veracious?"

Messengers before you were indeed mocked; then what they used to mock enveloped those among them who scoffed.

And if a whiff of your Guardian's punishment were to touch them, they would surely say: "Woe to us — we have indeed been wrongdoers!"

and even if it be the weight of a mustard seed, We shall bring it forth — and We suffice as reckoners.

We certainly gave Ibrahim his rectitude before, and We knew him well.

He said: "You and your ancestors were indeed in manifest error."

He said: "It was rather this one, the great one among them, who did it — ask them, if they can utter anything."

They said: "Burn him, and help your deities, if you must act!"

We said: "O fire, be coolness and peace upon Ibrahim."

and to Us they were obedient ones.

and We saved him from the city that used to commit vile practices —

they were an evil people, oversteppers.

they were an evil people, so We drowned them all together.

and We were witnesses to their judgment.

and it was We who did it.

and We had knowledge of all things.

and We were their preserver.

And Dhu'n-Nun, when he went off in anger and presumed that We would have no power over him: he called out in the darknesses: "There is no deity but You! Glory be to You! I have indeed been among the wrongdoers!"

they used to speed toward good deeds, and call upon Us in yearning and in reverence, and were humble before Us.

until Yajuj and Majuj are opened, and they come swarming down from every height, and the true promise draws near — then at once the sights of those who disowned are fixed: "Woe to us! We were heedless of this — we have rather been wrongdoers!"

Had these been deities, they would not have arrived at it;

and the Agents will receive them: "This is your day, the one you were promised."

We shall indeed do it.

O mankind, if you are in doubt about the Raising, then indeed We created you from earth, then from a drop, then from a clinging form, then from an embryo, formed and unformed, that We may make things clear to you.

Whoever presumes that God will never help him in the present life and the last life, let him extend a link toward the sky, then let him pull back from it, then let him wait and look whether his scheme removes what enrages him.

And when We settled for Ibrahim the site of the House: "Do not associate anything with Me,

And whoever associates with God, it is as though he had fallen from the sky, and the birds snatch him away, or the wind sweeps him down into a far-off place.

and how was My disavowal!

Have they not traveled through the earth, so as to have cores with which to reason, or ears with which to hear?

God will judge between you on the Day of Appearance concerning that in which you used to differ."

It is He who named you those true to Him, before and in this, so that the messenger may be a witness over you, and that you may be witnesses over mankind.

and We have never been heedless of creation.

and We were indeed testing.

And the court of his people, those who disowned and denied the meeting of the last life, and to whom We had given affluence in the present life, said: "This is nothing but a human like you, who eats of what you eat and drinks of what you drink; and if you defer to a human like you, you will then surely be losers. Does he promise you that, once dead and become earth and bones, you will be brought out? Far, far indeed is what you are promised! There is nothing but our present life, we die and we live, and we will not be raised up! He is nothing but a man who has invented a lie against God, and we will not give him credit."

Then We sent Moussa and his brother Harun, with Our signs and a manifest authority, to Fir'awn and his court; but they grew proud and were a haughty people,

They denied them, and were thus among those annihilated.

My signs were indeed recited to you, and you stepped back on your heels, growing too proud for them,

But they said the same thing that the ancients used to say; they said: "When we are dead and have become earth and bones, shall we really be raised?

Say: "To whom belongs the earth and those in it, if you know?" They will say: "To God."

Say: "Who holds in His hand the sovereign dominion of everything, who grants asylum, and against whom none can obtain asylum, if you know?" They will say: "To God."

and there was with Him no deity —

Were My signs not recited to you, and you denied them?

They will say: "Our Guardian, our misery overcame us, and we were an astray people.

There was a fraction among My obedient ones who said: "Our Guardian, we believe; forgive us and have benevolence on us, for You are the best of those who show benevolence" — but you made them the object of your scoffing, until they made you forget My Reminder, and you used to laugh at them.

He will say: "You remained only a little, if only you knew."

and let no kindness for them seize you in the Law of God, if you believe in God and the Last Day;

And those who accuse their spouses, having no witnesses except themselves, the testimony of one of them shall be to testify four times by God that he is surely among the veracious, and a fifth time, that the curse of God be upon him if he is among the liars.

And the punishment will be averted from her if she testifies four times by God that he is surely among the liars, and a fifth time, that the anger of God be upon her if he is among the veracious.

And if only, upon hearing it, you had said: "It is not for us to speak of this — glory be to You, this is an immense slander!"

God exhorts you never to repeat the like of it, if you are believers.

Those who accuse women protected by the marital bond, unwitting, believing, are indeed cursed in the present life and the last life, and they will have an immense punishment, on the day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will testify against them for what they used to do.

If they are poor, God will enrich them from His favor.

But if the right is on their side, they come to him in full compliance.

The only saying of the believers, when they are called to God and His messenger so that he may judge between them, is to say: "We have heard and we have deferred."

The believers are only those who believe in God and His messenger, and who, when they are with him for a common matter, do not leave until they have asked his permission.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Blessed is He who sent down the Discernment upon His obedient one, that he may be a warner to all beings,

He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, who has taken no child and has no associate in the dominion,

He is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent."

And they say: "What is with this messenger, that he eats food and walks in the marketplaces? Why has not an Agent been sent down to him to be a warner with him, or why is a treasure not thrown down to him, or why does he not have a garden to eat from!"

And We have made ready, for whoever denies the Hour, the Inferno. When it sees them from a distant place, they will hear its fury and a rattle.

And when they are thrown into a narrow place therein, bound together, they will call there for their ruin.

It will be for them a recompense and a destination."

that is, on the part of your Guardian, a promise that is demanded.

They will say: "Glory be to You! It was not fitting for us to take, besides You, any allies;

but You granted them enjoyment, them and their ancestors, until they forgot the Reminder and became a blighted people."

Your Guardian is All-Seeing.

and it will be, for those who disown, a difficult day.

The Diverter is, for the human being, one who always abandons him.

Those who will be gathered upon their faces toward Jahannam — those have the worst place and the most astray way.

did they not see it, then?

But they did not hope for any Deployment.

Have you seen him who has taken his emotion as his deity? Would you then be his trustee?

Your Guardian is Capable.

and he who disowns becomes a support against his Guardian.

and those who say: "Our Guardian, turn away from us the punishment of Jahannam — for its punishment is an unforeseen levy;

and those who, when they spend, neither waste nor withhold excessively, standing between the two with just measure,

and God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

You have thus denied, and it will become inevitable."

Perhaps you will consume yourself because they are not believers.

And no recent reminder comes to them from the All-Benevolent without their turning away from it.

Yet they have denied; the information of what they used to mock will soon reach them.

But most of them are not believers.

He said: "The Guardian of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, if you are of those who know with certainty."

He said: "The Guardian of the east and the west and what is between them, if you would reason."

He said: "Bring it then, if you are among the veracious."

And it was said to the people: "Will you come together, in the hope that we may follow the workers of illusion, if they are the victors?"

When the workers of illusion came, they said to Fir'awn: "Will there really be a reward for us, if we are the victors?"

We long for our Guardian to forgive us our faults, since we are the first of the believers."

We then revealed to Moussa: "Strike the sea with your staff." It split, and each part was like an immense peak.

But most of them are not believers.

He said: "Have you then seen what you used to obey, you and your most distant forefathers? They are indeed enemies to me,

and forgive my father, for he was among the astray,

And it will be said to them: "Where are those you used to obey, besides God,

They will say, quarreling there: "By God, we were indeed in manifest error, when we set you on the same level as the Guardian of all beings.

If only we had a comeback, we would be among the believers!"

But most of them are not believers.

He said: "What do I know of what they used to do?

They said: "If you do not stop, O Nuh, you will surely be among the banished."

But most of them are not believers.

They said: "It is the same to us whether you exhort or are not among those who exhort; this is only the character of the ancients, and we shall not be punished."

But most of them are not believers.

They said: "You are only among those abused by illusion; you are only a human like us; bring then a sign, if you are among the veracious."

But most of them are not believers.

They said: "If you do not stop, O Lut, you will surely be among those expelled."

But most of them are not believers.

and do not be among those who cause loss.

They said: "You are only among those abused by illusion; you are only a human like us, and we certainly presume you to be among the liars. So make a fragment of the sky tumble upon us, if you are among the veracious."

It was the punishment of an immense day.

But most of them are not believers.

The trustworthy Influx came down with it, upon your core, so that you may be among the warners, in a flawless, explicit tongue.

Is it not a sign for them, that the scholars of the Sons of Israel know it?

And if We had sent it down upon one of those whose tongue is not flawless, and he had read it to them, they would not have believed in it.

Do you see? If We granted them enjoyment for years, then what they were promised came to them, of what use to them was the enjoyment they were granted?

and We have never been wrongdoers.

So do not invoke, alongside God, another deity, or you would be among the punished.

they were a people of oversteppers."

So look at what was the end of the corrupters.

And he reviewed the birds, and said: "Why do I not see the hoopoe? Or is she among the absent?

He said: "We shall look whether you have spoken truly, or are among the liars.

She said: "O court, enlighten me about my affair; I issue no ordinance without you bearing witness to it."

He said: "Make her edifice unrecognizable to her; we shall look into whether she lets herself be guided, or is among those who do not let themselves be guided."

And knowledge had been given to us before her, and we were true to God alone."

And what she used to obey, besides God, had barred her from it;

she belonged to a people who disown.

And there were in the Capital nine individuals who sowed corruption on the earth and made nothing sound.

So look at what was the end of their plot:

And We saved those who had believed and guarded themselves.

The only response of his people was to say: "Expel the clan of Lut from your city;

without it being possible for you to make their trees grow?

Say: "Bring your demonstration, if you are veracious."

And those who disown said: "When we are earth, we and our ancestors, will we really be brought out?

Say: "Travel the earth, and see what was the end of the severed."

And do not grieve over them, and do not be constrained because of what they plot.

And they say: "When will this promise be, if you are veracious?"

Say: "It may be that some of what you seek to hasten is very close behind you."

because men had no certainty regarding Our signs.

Or what were you doing?"